The new definition revealed that many individuals faced a higher risk of death due to harmful body fat , even though their ...

Body Mass Index, or BMI, has long been criticized as an unreliable method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations for how to use it.

A group of 58 researchers is calling for a new, better way to measure obesity and excess body fat that goes beyond BMI. Here's what they recommend using instead.

Overweight and obese people under 25 increased from 198 million to 493 million between 1990 and 2021. That number is forecast to reach 746 million by 2050. While GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and ...

That’s because your cells remember being obese and actively fight against your efforts to keep the weight off, according to a study published in Nature. “The body seems to retain an obesogenic ...